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  1. Paynefanbro
    Both Jersey City and Newark are part of the North Jersey market but I think it’s fair to add them to the map considering that they’re closer to NYC than some of the keep sites that actually are part of the NYC market like the one I found in Middletown. Edit: While we're at it, here are 3 keep sites in the North Jersey market I found: T-Mobile eNB 894946 (40.76025066066227, -74.02319905031857) T-Mobile eNB 874734 (40.88430199578836, -74.0689136045038) T-Mobile eNB 875135 (40.87580324171812, -74.06612743737007) — — — — — Also found a new-build in Tenafly a while back but I don't know if we want to keep track of those too. T-Mobile eNB 891761 (40.92481567639597, -73.96686971744198)
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    More confirmations incoming! T-Mobile eNB 880561 (40.74176835140717, -73.88364207139453) Sprint eNB 6191 / T-Mobile eNB 880065 (40.71339007010928, -73.85695387371624) Confirmed this site but was unable to get a photo because the antennas are set back from the edge of the building. I could see them from super far away but there wasn't a good area for me to pull over and snap a pic. Sprint eNB 6189 / T-Mobile eNB 877995 (40.71183894845567, -73.83529788316665) Sprint eNB 253741 / T-Mobile eNB 875537/875538 (40.70170960850086,-73.83302208208359) Sprint eNB 79912 / T-Mobile eNB 875989 (40.86349197342981, -73.923456682535) — — — — — T-Mobile eNB 880536 in the Bronx isn't a Sprint conversion, instead it looks like T-Mobile changed the eNB ID when they upgraded the site. The nearest Sprint site at 40.8150405321864, -73.93010756429787 still has all of its antennas up and is literally within spitting distance of two other T-Mobile sites in an area that's very industrial as opposed to residential or commercial so a keep site isn't particularly necessary. You can see on Cellmapper that the old eNB stopped broadcasting about two days after the new eNB went live. — — — — — Also wanted to add that I spotted AT&T C-band antennas quite a bit in both Queens and the Bronx. I would expect a summer C-band launch announcement from them because they're moving FAST. At least in my area, it seem like they're upgrading at a similar, if not faster pace compared to Verizon. Pics incoming! AT&T eNB 116408 / T-Mobile eNB 42887. This one is interesting not only because of the AT&T C-band but because T-Mobile upgraded this site without installing any Massive MIMO n41 antennas. There are just two of the RFS antennas that we normally get. It seems like there just isn't enough space on the rack for three antennas. Maybe sometime in the future they'll modify the actual antenna rack so that more can be added. Pre-upgrade the site was Band 2/12/66 with 2x2 MIMO across all bands. Now it's Band 2/12/66/71 with 4x4MIMO across all bands so the people in the area are still receiving a decent boost in capacity and speeds. AT&T eNB 112047, bad pic but the arrows on the billboard are pointing right at the C-band antenna lol — — — — — Last edit I promise: I noticed T-Mobile submit a permit to convert the keep site I found in Staten Island (Sprint eNB 75141). I 100% guessed it's location since I connected to it literally 4.5 miles across the water while inside a building. Glad to see I was right!
  3. Paynefanbro
    AT&T eNB 110251 got all new antennas including C-band. The previous antennas on the site were ancient so I’m glad it got cleaned up. Edit: also eNB 115234
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    Confirmed Confirmed
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    Interesting that they're keeping that Band 25 Sprint RRU and cabinet. I'm pretty sure they did something similar when they kept T-Mobile eNB 875872. When I visited it a while back it was still broadcasting the keep PLMN on Band 25 but my phone would throw me back onto T-Mobile in less than 10 seconds if I tried to connect to it.
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    I'm still seeing the stripes for partner coverage on my end.
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    Can confirm T-Mobile eNB 875826 is converted. Looks like there's a Sprint RRU up there. Location (40.72920635526646, -73.92300128440183) — — — — — I also attempted to confirm the site at (40.737745921347205, -73.88466508925949) on the keep site map but it still has its Sprint equipment up. I didn't see any T-Mobile antennas on it. Coincidentally T-Mobile did submit a permit two days ago to remove the Sprint antennas on the building. It hasn't been approved yet though. — — — — — Got my highest upload speeds ever today. This is on eNB 56637 in Long Island City. Those 256QAM + 100MHz n41 speeds are gonna make some TMHI users happy.
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    Permit submitted on May 5th for Sprint eNB 196271 to be converted into a T-Mobile site. Location: 40.594170548244925, -73.98153574104246
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    T-Mobile recently requested a permit to remove the Sprint antennas from eNB 5863. This was one of Sprint's first 5G sites in Brooklyn. There's a T-Mobile site less than a block away so it makes sense but this is one of the few times I've spotted them decommissioning a non-keep/non-collocated site. It's Job # B00694601 in DOB Now. At least the site is immortalized in Street View:
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    Just ran some speed tests and they're all between 0-1% on my iPhone. Highest I've gotten is 0.88%. Is this happening across multiple sites or just one?
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    Can confirm Crown Heights is officially at 100MHz n41. Just like last time we got a bump in carrier size, the most noticeable impact is higher upload speeds. I just got 129Mbps inside my house but download speeds are still capping out around 650Mbps. The most noticeable change on the download side is that I'm getting those 600Mbps+ speeds even further from my home site. Once again, the only thing holding T-Mobile back is backhaul.
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    Looks like this site's location was already confirmed by @thisischuck01 on Cellmapper. Location: 40.68386106415719, -73.87804143759858 It's probably gonna stay that way until Crown Castle gets around to upgrading all of the small cells they have littered throughout the borough. They've already started the n41 small cell upgrades in LA and Florida so hopefully they'll start here this summer. It looks like between September 2020 and March 2021 Crown Castle pretty much stopped reserving poles for small cells but they started reserving en masse again in April 2021, probably for 5G small cells. I made a map of all the small cell reservations that Crown Castle has made since then because they're likely going to be some of the first T-Mobile 5G small cells deployed. https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1kzPJw7a8bRuRlITZwaNGI29HcAB7Em9Q&usp=sharing Some of them like this one in Canarsie that was reserved on February 18, 2022, are right in the middle of a T-Mobile dead zone. The red dot is where the reserved pole is located.
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    Sprint eNB 6438 is broadcasting the keep PLMN. Not NYC but the site is part of ex-Sprint's NYC market. Location: 41.108970886700284, -73.80691442283441 At this rate T-Mobile looks is probably going to match, if not surpass Verizon's macro density in a decent portion of NYC's suburbs and exurbs.
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    Reviving another thread! I went up to Hudson, NY this weekend and tested T-Mobile and Verizon's networks while there. Most of the urbanized area of Hudson is served by a single site on top of Columbia Memorial Hospital that nearly every carrier is collocated on. Verizon's site at the hospital is broadcasting Band 2/5/13/66 and no 5G at all. T-Mobile's is broadcasting Band 2/12/41/66/71 and n41/71. Coverage on both carriers is roughly the same but speeds are leaps and bounds better on T-Mobile. If I had to take I guess, I think that this due to a combination of T-Mobile having more spectrum deployed and simply having fewer customers in the region. In equal conditions along Warren St (Hudson's Main Street) I was seeing average speeds of ~350Mbps on T-Mobile and on Verizon I was seeing ~60Mbps on average. In normal usage, I couldn't tell a difference between 60Mbps and 350Mbps on my phones. While in Hudson, I stayed at The Wick Hotel (I highly recommend it if you visit) which is located pretty much as far as you can get away from the city's main cell site while staying in Hudson. It's near the waterfront and just across the street from the Hudson Amtrak Station. In my hotel room the difference in the networks was a lot more noticeable. My T-Mobile line no longer connected to 5G. Instead it flipped between 5MHz of Band 12 and 5MHz of Band 71. On Verizon I was only able to get 10MHz of Band 13. During the day, the Verizon's Band 13 carrier could barely get over 1Mbps on the 1-2 bars of LTE I was seeing in my room. T-Mobile on the other hand was getting a consistent 12Mbps on both Band 12 and Band 71 with similar signal strength to Verizon. I also tested at 3AM to see the difference in speeds when the network is barely in use. This was the only time during my trip where Verizon outperformed T-Mobile. With those same 1-2 bars at 3AM I managed to get 54Mbps on Verizon and on T-Mobile I was only able to get up to 27Mbps. It seems like this difference in speed can mostly be attributed to the difference in carrier size as opposed to capacity. Sidenote: One thing I noticed in Hudson is that I often had a stronger signal on n41 than I did on Band 66. When I checked FieldTestMode I’d see something like Band 66 at -112dbm while n41 was at -106dbm. Goes to show how good n41's propagation can be in areas where they can just increase power to the max. — — — — — I also went for lunch at Frank Guido's Port of Call in Catskill, NY. Neither Verizon nor T-Mobile have 5G in Catskill. There, T-Mobile outperformed Verizon once again. Verizon's network was completely unusable in the restaurant. I couldn't load any social media or place a call and I was barely able to send a text out on the 1 bar of Band 13 I was seeing. I was unable to even run a speed test on Verizon as it failed every single time. My T-Mobile line on the other hand bounced between 1-2 bars of Band 12, enough to give me about 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up. — — — — — Purple and red markers are where the T-Mobile/Verizon site is located, the blue marker is where The Wick Hotel is, and the red line is Warren St. It seems like coverage is optimized on both carriers to cover Warren Street as best as they can.
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    I'm usually asleep by then lol. I never really got the chance to test that late at night. I'm certain that I can probably get to the mid-700's at that time but my area is super T-Mobile heavy so I don't think I can get much faster than that. Interestingly though my speeds are faster at 8 in the morning than they are at midnight.
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    In the past week or so I've been noticing that my phone has started reporting two NR carriers while showing 80MHz n41 and NSA. FieldTestMode on the iPhone can be weird but there is some method to its madness. When two NR carriers are aggregated in the same band FieldTestMode will show the bandwidth as the total of all aggregated carriers, however if two carriers from different bands are being aggregated it'll only show the bandwidth of the PCC. For example, on mmWave here it'll show 100MHz n261 while showing 2 NR carriers. So because my phone is reporting 80MHz n41 with 2 carriers and NSA, what that's telling me is that T-Mobile is aggregating Band 2+66+n41+n71. It's too bad T-Mobile hasn't increased backhaul to take advantage of that amount of spectrum. Edit: Can confirm it's running on my home site as well. I'm now seeing NSA n71+n41 carrier aggregation inside my home. I can get 256QAM uploads as long as I have line of sight to the tower. If there’s anything blocking the way, it drops.
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    Seems like the franchisees are flying through the wooden pole upgrades since they don't require sheathing the antennas. It also seems like they deploying them super high for max coverage. The newer small cells on metal poles are definitely fewer and farther between.
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    Spotted 256QAM upload on T-Mobile in the wild for the first time. It gave me my fastest upload speeds on T-Mobile yet, granted it's midnight but still shows what the network is capable of. According to Field Test Mode, this was two NR carriers, 4x4MIMO and 256QAM on both download and upload at work. Because my phone reported 80MHz of NR even after cycling airplane mode, I'm guessing it's n41 + n71 instead of 2CC n41. If anyone wants to do their own testing this was eNB 42935 in Crown Heights.
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    I was able to confirm 3 Sprint conversions today. T-Mobile eNB 875391 | Location: (40.620949331537865, -74.00709840980129 Sprint eNB 5937 / T-Mobile eNB 895059 | Location: (40.67624628326316, -73.86434256122145) Sprint eNB 74311 / T-Mobile eNB 875607 | Location: (40.69491239962611, -73.91178557843641) — — — — — Bonus AT&T C-band site in Crown Heights (eNB 114239):
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    Also I'm pretty sure that eNB 6858 that's marked as "Planned, location unknown" on the map is located here: 40.66112542160009, -73.87490219960173 I was planning on visiting a lot of the estimated keep and planned sites to confirm locations and take photos of conversions but the parking spot I got is too good so I probably won't move my car until next weekend 😭
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    Nearly 600Mbps in Coney Island tonight. Looks like T-Mobile isn't letting spectrum squatters rain on their parade lol. Phone was reporting 40MHz and 1 carrier but it could've been stale data.
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    In the past they had a "roam like home" deal with Sprint and I think that their agreement expanded to include T-Mobile as their primary roaming partner however I'm sure they have other secondary roaming partners like U.S. Cellular in areas where T-Mobile isn't available.
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    Sprint eNB 76027 right next to the Javits Center is broadcasting the keep PLMN. Location: 40.75896286453815, -74.0001921377359 — — — — — Also the AT&T site just off the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge that's collocated on the building with T-Mobile eNB 45718 has C-band antennas on it. No DoD antennas on it though.
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    Reviving this thread! Sprint eNB 57506 is now T-Mobile eNB 478361. This was formerly the main Sprint site covering Roosevelt Field Mall. With the addition of this site, T-Mobile now has ~3 macros covering the mall in addition to a DAS.
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    Saw an interesting Verizon C-band site in the Financial District. Any idea what that little antenna on the far right is? CBRS maybe? — — — — — T-Mobile and AT&T sites on the buildings next door: Seems like most sites in the Financial District have over a gig of backhaul. I got great speeds ranging from 700-900Mbps from lots of sites in the area. iPhone Field Test reported that I was connected to eNB 127915 during this test but I'm not sure where it's located exactly.
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